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The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Directed by
Lars Kraume
R
2015
1h 45m
Drama
,
History
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7.1
85%
78%
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The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
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Cast of The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Burghart Klaußner
Fritz Bauer
Ronald Zehrfeld
Karl Angermann
Sebastian Blomberg
Ulrich Kreidler
Jörg Schüttauf
Paul Gebhardt
Lilith Stangenberg
Victoria
Laura Tonke
Ms. Schütt
Götz Schubert
Georg-August Zinn
Cornelia Gröschel
Charlotte Angermann
Robert Atzorn
Charlottes Father
Matthias Weidenhöfer
Zvi Aharoni
Rüdiger Klink
Heinz Mahler
Paulus Manker
Friedrich Morlach
Michael Schenk
Adolf Eichmann
Tilo Werner
Isser Harel
Dani Levy
Chaim Cohn
Jochen Kolenda
Richter
Thomas Kügel
Dr. Erwin Schüle
Christopher Buchholz
Lothar Hermann
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
Staatsanwalt Kügler
Daniel Krauss
Staatsanwalt Vogel
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer Ratings & Reviews
The Blue Lenses
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
The result may not be highbrow experimental art cinema, but ... its explicit mission to tell Bauer's story to as many people as it can shouldn't be underrated in the current global political climate.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
Director/co-writer Lars Kraume navigates this complex, fascinating story chronologically with his and Olivier Guez's screenplay a targeted indictment of post-WWII Nazis hiding in plain sight with each other's cooperation duplicity.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... more compelling as a character study than a true-life historical saga.
Vanguard Seattle
Molly Laich
The film consists mostly of serious white men standing in rooms, talking and sometimes arguing with one another. This isn't a criticism, per se. A serious German story deserves a serious German film -- but it's worth knowing this ahead of time.
Buffalo News
Mark Sommer
Add this to the ever-growing list of films that bring a moral reckoning to the horrors of World War II, a period of which, we're often reminded, "we must never forget."
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
The movie belongs to Klaussner, who gives Bauer a bulldog stubbornness and a hint of eccentricity that makes the character indelible.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
A deliberate picture, never achieving a full gallop, but the subtleties of performance and history are engrossing
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Klaussner's powerful performance as Bauer ... snaps the picture back into focus.
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The movie belongs to Burghart Klaussner, who plays the resolutely unheroic Bauer with gruff dignity, a short fuse, sad cynicism and a refusal to quiet his conscience.
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Mark Dujsik
The political situation presented here is complex, and it's reassuring to have a guide as clear-eyed as Bauer taking us through it.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
It's a compelling portrait both of Bauer and of a fraught moment in German history.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Kraume brings muted colors and a claustrophobic, urgent energy to the procedural part of this story, while reminding us that not every moral hero looks like Captain America - in fact, like Bauer, they can be a rumpled, misanthropic mess.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
Klaussner's fine performance keeps us on edge through most of the film, even though we know the result.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
What "The People vs. Fritz Bauer" does so well is distill large, complicated political issues into an intimate, personal story about one man's desire to bring not only justice, but catharsis to post-war Germany, mired in a fog of complacency.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Director Lars Kraume's mounting of this tale, while capable enough, is also rather staid and conventional.
New York Times
Ken Jaworowski
From start to finish, it's absorbing.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
By focusing on his subject's unwavering moral certainty, Kraume denies his ethical complexity and diminishes the difficulties of his challenging stance to educate the society that wanted him dead.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Though relatively conservative in its approach, Lars Kraume's teleplay-style treatment of a still-touchy subject has the nerve to name names, implicating everyone from chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Mercedes-Benz.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Though blessed with a spectacular true story and character to work from, director and co-screenwriter Lars Kraume fails to breathe much life into the stuffy, overly complex enumeration of the historical facts that led to Eichmann's arrest.
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